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The Little Paris Shopkeeper

When I was a little kid, my favourite thing to do was play shop. For Christmas, I asked for a toy cash register and set up my room like a boutique, displaying my clothes on hangers, putting price tags on everything and greeting imaginary customers. Today, I actually opened a real online store, with my…

For Sale: 10 Life Swapping Business Ventures

Today on the internet, I played with the idea of uprooting my life and starting fresh with a brand new business venture. Don’t panic! I love my job an my life swapping research is purely a hypothetical exercise, but perhaps it might turn into something real for you. It all started with a taco hut…

Stop Everything and Check Out these Killer Needleworks

So you might have noticed I’m pretty into needlework lately. If you’re picturing me curled up on an armchair doing the needlework myself– yeah, I’m not quite there yet. I just really, really like looking at this stuff and I’m thinking I need to made an entire wall of embroideries and cross-stitches in antique frames.…

Adopt an Abandoned French Chateau

So you know how I’m always telling you about these incredible chateaux left to ruin here in France? And then you ask, “why can’t someone save that place?” Well, I’ve come across something that can certainly help us try… Adopte un Château is a relatively new association dedicated entirely to saving endangered castles by working with…

The Best Pieces up for Auction from Audrey Hepburn’s Personal Collection

I‘ve always been drawn to the less clean-cut screen legends of the past, but there was no way I wasn’t going to have my eye on the Audrey Hepburn sale of the century. To own her Breakfast at Tiffany’s script, a pair of her ballet flats, or just a card from the studio telling her what time…

Time Capsules of Lake Como

It’s not often that you browse through real estate pages feeling a nostalgia rushing through your insides and tugging at your heart strings, but that’s exactly what happens when I find myself digging through the property inventory of Lionard (specialists in big empty Italian castles for sale). This can’t be right… I say to myself as I click through rooms with incredible art…

Inside a Real-Life Miss Havisham Mansion For Sale

It’s quite an exciting moment when you find that mysterious, abandoned house you’ve been stalking on the internet over the years– never quite certain whether it even really, truly exists– finally appearing on a realtor’s listing, announcing its officially going up for sale. The Howey mansion in Florida is a bit of local legend, built by the 1920s citrus tycoon…

The Kneeling Boutiques of Bulgaria

Blink –or hold your head high– and you’ll miss it. Hiding below your eye-level on the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria, these secret little window shops called ‘klek‘ (kneel) are as common as the average newsagent. The name itself derives quite simply from the fact that customers are brought to their knees in order to shop there. The concept arrived…

Babies Need Culture Too

I‘m guessing I probably don’t have a huge amount of readers below the age of 18 months, but I’m going to reach out to them out anyway. So babies: if you’re reading, it’s time you told your adults to stop buying you all those ridiculous and immature toys that prevent your inner quirk from evolving. You should to be surrounded by cultural…

The Man who makes the Neon Signs

In a dark and forgotten storage room of Clifton’s cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, a neon sign was secretly glowing and flickering since the Great Depression, until it was discovered after 62 years, having accumulated over $17,000 in electricity bills for the unwitting owners. The sign was purchased in 1935 but later stored out of…

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